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allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals.
(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed a movement announced by other congressional Democrats on Wednesday to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals.
The First Amendment says in part: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
Television networks, newspapers, publishing houses, movie studios and think tanks, as well as political action committees, are usually organized as, or elements of, corporations.
Pelosi said the Democrats' effort to amend the Constitution is part of a three-pronged strategy that also includes promoting the DISCLOSE Act, which would increase disclosure requirements for organizations running political ads, and “reducing the roll of money in campaigns” (which some Democrats have said can be done through taxpayer funding of campaigns).
The constitutional amendment the Democrats seek would reverse the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In that decision the court said that the First Amendment protects a right of free speech for corporations as well as for individuals, and that corporations (including those that produce newspapers, films and books) have a right to speak about politicians and their records just as individuals do.
“We have a clear agenda in this regard: Disclose, reform the system reducing the roll of money in campaigns, and amend the Constitution to rid it of this ability for special interests to use secret, unlimited, huge amounts of money flowing to campaigns,” Pelosi said at her Thursday press briefing.
Originally posted by headorheart
I think someone is a little cranky that corporations are on the Republican's side.
But really amending free speech??
reducing the roll of money in campaigns
“We have a clear agenda in this regard: Disclose, reform the system reducing the roll of money in campaigns, and amend the Constitution to rid it of this ability for special interests to use secret, unlimited, huge amounts of money flowing to campaigns,” Pelosi said at her Thursday press briefing.
Like maybe She's hinting about a new Executive Order or something.
Television networks, newspapers, publishing houses, movie studios and think tanks, as well as political action committees, are usually organized as, or elements of, corporations.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by xuenchen
So, the predictions are coming true. If they think they may loose it's going to get very, very weird.
Time for Occupy to get honest and land in front of Pelosi's house. She and her husband are well into the 1%, so honesty demands they go after her. Insider Trader extraordinaire. I'll bet she had a literal Cow when that became illegal
She want's her private taxpayer funded jet back so bad she may do anything.
I think it is most certainly time for the water supply in her District to be checked to see what the voters are drinking. Must be quite a cocktail of psychotropic drugs and perhaps a lot of flushed Crack.
The government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech," wrote Roberts. "It asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of pamphlets, posters, the Internet, and virtually any other medium that corporations and unions might find useful in expressing their views on matters of public concerns."
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
Why would Occupy do that when this is something they would support???
This is about limiting Corporate influence on the political process...that is pretty much their core issue.